openSUSE Release Engineering minutes April 22

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## Attendees:
foursixnine, DimStar, rfrohl, wengel, maxlin, guillaumeg, ana

## openSUSE Tumbleweed (ana)
openSUSE:Factory build fail stats: 96  failed  52 unresolvable (last week:
158 failed 100 unresolvable)

~851 requests accepted in the last week (data source:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/pulse)

Most relevant changes of the last week:

   - Linux Kernel 6.19.12


   - Linux Kernel Longterm 6.18.23


   - libarchive 3.8.7


   - Meson 1.11.0


   - Python 3.13.13  & Python 3.14.4


   - KDE gear 26.04


   - GStreamer 1.28.2


   - Mesa 26.0.5


   - AGAMA 20


   - bind 9.20.22


   - nano 9.0


   - libpng 1.6.57


   - transactional-update: softreboot enabled by default again


   - More updates of GNOME 50


   - Chromium 147.0.7727.101


Coming soon (accepted):

   - GIMP  3.2.4


   - scribus 1.6.6


   - libxml2 2.15.3


On-going:


   - Linux kernel 7.0


   - *  linux-glibc-devel 7.0 issues: breaks glibc and strace




   - GCC16 phase two, switch the compiler itself to GCC16, ~15 build
   failures in rings, many unresolvables


   - Tracking failures in dedicated staging
   https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:...


   - bugzilla https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1243674



   - glibc 2.43:


   - ~5 build failures in rings (binutils, ceph, libnfs, open-vm-tools and
   MozillaFirefox) and 9 unresolvables


   -  https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257250


   - Tracking failures in dedicated staging
   https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:...



   - cmake 4.3.1: some build issues (needs to be restaged to have full
   list).



   - All python interpreters: python311.. python314: restructuration
   on-going to have python3-* provided by new package "python3"
   https://build.opensuse.org/requests/1348280



   - SElinux: Change store root-path for selinux modules from
   /var/lib/selinux to /etc/selinux :


   - advanced, soon for testing in a staging project


   - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221342



   - llvm22: everything builds now, waiting for openQA tests


On-going in staging, (nothing to report):

   - Meson 1.11.1


   - libgcrypt 1.12.2


   - systemd 260.1


   - mpc 1.4.1


   - time 1.10




## Guillaume - Arm

Tumbleweed:
    * Rolling again

ARMv9 project: (Rebuild of Tumbleweed rings 0+1 packages + few others)
    * Wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/Armv9_project
    * Pipeline now fully automated with TTM for devel:ARM:Factory:ARMv9.


## Sarah - s390x

Not available

## Leap

Merged virtualbox to Leap 16.1, virtualbox will be available in the next
snapshot

BOOTFROMHARDDISK is removed from the boot menu if uefi environment

The PRs waiting for legal review is a bit longer
https://src.opensuse.org/products/PackageHub/pulls

The build deps requirement of blender 4.5 and 5.0 was merged, the last
change is submitted to devel project
https://build.opensuse.org/requests/1348604 and
https://build.opensuse.org/requests/1348603

## Maintenance (Marcus, Robert)

Leap 16.0:
Release pipeline finally unblocked after 12 days, released a new snapshot
yesterday. The snapshot included a crypto-policy update introducing
post-quantum crypto changes.

virtualbox build issues were resolved, the update is available since
earlier today.

We are working to burn down problematic 16.0 update backlog: If you miss an
update reach out to get it prioritized


Leap 15.6:
The end of life is expected by the end of the month, still working on
updates normally. Work on the windown has started though.

## Doug

Not available

## Adrian - OBS
No updates

## Bernhard - Slowroll
Not available

## Bernhard - reproducible builds
Not available

## Adam - Git Workflow
Not available

## Santiago - openQA
- Worked on windows images, disabling password expiration
- Looking into failures of libreoffice tests

## Open Floor
- Direct project migration to git


-- 
Santiago Zarate
QE Engineer, Early Adopters Team

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90461 Nuernberg
Germany
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